Historic

1930 The Breakthrough

Steroids were first developed in the 1930's. The Germans first used dogs as a test subject, and then they use their own soldiers in the Second World War. Then in the 1950's many Russian and European athletes began to find that steroids were very beneficial to their goals and soon after began dominating the sport of power lifting, crushing previous world records. It seems that the use of anabolic steroids by athletes is relatively new. Testosterone was first synthesized in the 1930's and was introduced into the sporting arena in the 1940's and 1950's. In the 195’2 Olympics there was a team of weight lifters that had won a lot of medals more than average. Some American physicians became curious that U. S. competitors should have the same advantage of having a lot of medals in one Olympic. In 1958 a U.S. pharmaceutical firm had developed anabolic steroids. While the Physician was so busy doping up U.S. athletes they soon realized the drugs had side effects, but it was too late to keep the sports world from using the drug. When it first started it was mainly use by people who were throwers or competitors who relied heavily on bulk and strength. During the 1970's the request grew, as athletes in other sports brought the competitive edge that anabolic steroids seemed to provide. By the 1980's, as non athletes also discovered the body-enhancing properties of steroids, a black market began to flourish for the illegal production and sale of the drugs for nonmedical purposes. The Olympics started testing for certain kinds of drugs, like amphetamines which is another very deadly drug of choice. The Olympics didn’t really start banning steroids until 1975. By the 19th Century professionalized sports will change and so will everything else.

300BC: Competitors disqualified from competing in the Olympics for ingesting mushrooms and animal protein. This is important because this is the very first time that a group of people tried to use a way to cheat in a competition. This is letting us know that even in the old times them use to use steroids and find a way to be the better man without workout.

1972: Anabolic steroid was banned from use during the Summer Olympics Games in Montreal, Canada. This is important to me because that it is more history that we all haven’t even heard or learned about. This is a hard fact based on steroids which is the stuff that happens behind scenes, which many people don’t know about.

1995:64 weight-lifters were caught using illegal drugs. Most of the cases involved anabolic steroids and stimulants. This is important for because it shows that steroids are still being used today as the world may not know. There are still athletes out there that are tiring to cheat their way out of sports. This is nothing more than people that want to be the best but doesn’t really want to work hard